Have you ever thought about improving the quality of electrical insulation tape to better secure electrical installations and to enhance the safety of workers, engineers, and other people? Do you know electrical insulation tape has crossed a long journey to become a more important player in making electrical installations human-friendly? Yes, I am talking about mastic tape. If you are not using mastic tape still to safeguard electrical installations better, adopt this practice today.
What is Mastic Tape?
Mastic tape offers excellent sealing n adhesion characteristics suitable for metals, synthetic insulations, jackets, and rubbers. Mastic tape provides high UV resistance. The mastic tapes are designed for robust outdoor conditions for quick sealing the contents against moisture. Mastic Tape is a sticky malleable mass with a flexible rubberized back that acts like putty. It is highly effective for both repairs and insulation. Incredible stretching and flexible properties make it an excellent choice for bulk-wrapping of sharp connections or components. These easy-to-use formidable tapes are highly effective to protect the sensitive components of electrical installations that are more prone to moisture, abrasion, and puncture.
What Types Of Heat Shrink Are Available?
As the demand for mastic tapes is increasing and the users are experiencing its technical excellence and usage ease, the users’ expectations are on the rise. The leading mastic tape manufacturers are emphasizing expanding the variety of mastic tape to simplify the selection for the particular applications. Today, the most used mastic tapes are:
- Mastic tape compound
- Mastic tape for cable jacket repair
- Rubber-based thin mastic tape as an electrical moisture sealant
- All-weather grade mastic tape with PVC backing
- Mastic tape as electrical insulation putty
- Rubber mastic tape with Ethylene Propylene rubber backing
What Are The Common Commercial Applications Of Mastic Tape?
The compound Mastic tape is a durable, tacky and conformable mastic that has a self-released liner to insulate irregular surfaces against moisture. The superior self-healing characteristic makes it the preferred choice of engineers. Cable jacket repair mastic tape is manufactured with a tough abrasion-resistant lining for insulating portable flexible power cables, locomotive diesel cables, draglines, welding cables, shipboard cables etc. The pliable and soft waterproof mastic electrical insulation putty is an excellent choice to insulate electrical fittings and processing valves. Electrical moisture sealant mastic tape is used to protect electrical connections, cable ends and joints up to 600 volts against moisture. Rubber mastic tape with temperature-stable adhesive lining is used to insulate cable splices and wire terminals.
How To Select The Best Suitable Mastic Tape:
The different manufacturers of mastic tape produce different ranges with different properties; therefore, you must be specific for the requirement. One type of mastic tape can’t be as good for another application is it has been proved for one application. The material to be insulated, surface shape, temperature, possible mechanical stress type, hazards type, surface area to be sealed are the key selection parameters. However, the top brands of mastic tape offer free assistance to help you choose the right mastic tape and to safeguard your electrical installations.
Pro-tip:
Gala Thermo in Mumbai manufactures quality-tested mastic tapes for a variety of applications along with a wide range of heat shrink electrical and moisture insulation products.